RE:
Toot Café
Baldur Bjarnason (@baldur@toot.cafe)
What the hell, since things largely seem to suck a bit these days, why not hold an otherwise completely unplanned sale? So, for the holidays, a ...
 My books are on sale for the duration of the holidays, on account of everything being awful for pretty much everybody these days. View quoted note →
Currently intentionally disabling my ad blocker on YouTube just to more easily report all of the gambling site ads that Google has let run rampant on the site in Iceland. Currently gambling services are carpet-bombing ads at most users in Iceland, usually targeting only by location and time Last time I tried this, half the time Google came back with something along the lines "this betting site for money is not a gambling site and so not in violation of our terms" which was obvious nonsense
RE:
Toot Café
Baldur Bjarnason (@baldur@toot.cafe)
I’ll let you in on a secret: I love sporadically updated weblogs. I subscribe to over 1200 feeds and most of them are sporadic or even technicall...
 In the year since I published this post, this has turned into something of a curse. (I know, I know. "I told you so." Yeah, some of you did.) Turns out following a broad cross-section of the long tail of tech and web dev, that previously was low volume and mostly driven by passion and interest, only works until a big chunk of that long tail goes all-in on "AI" boosterism Seeing nonsense "AI" fluff spread like mold through my feed reader over the past few months has been thoroughly depressing. View quoted note →
A couple of years ago, if I had come across a misguided post from somebody with community traction, there was a decent chance I’d try to put together a thread or post with enough context to explain why it was misguided They almost always got cause and effect the wrong way around. As in, the thing you think caused something else actually came after as a response to it But posts like these are coming in so frequently on my social media and feeds now that it’d be a full time job to cover them all
What the hell, since things largely seem to suck a bit these days, why not hold an otherwise completely unplanned sale? So, for the holidays, a €10 EUR discount on my books, and you can choose between reading about how "AI" doesn't work or about how to fix the shit storm that is modern software development The Intelligence Illusion, for €25: https://payhip.baldurbjarnason.com/b/34qSg Out of the Software Crisis, for €25: https://payhip.baldurbjarnason.com/b/skbMv
Ég er nú ekki Morgunblaðstýpan en það er ágætis umfjöllun um myndasöguna Kötturinn og ég, sem ég gaf út, í blaðinu í dag #myndasaga #jólabókaflóð #bækur
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“Are the Broligarchs Ready to Be on the Downward Turn of the Wheel? - TPM – Talking Points Memo”
TPM – Talking Points Memo
Are the Broligarchs Ready to Be on the Downward Turn of the Wheel?
Today, I want to share some additional thoughts with you on this...
 > But I’m also used to working on the assumption that outside of my world — one of people very up on politics, generally well-educated and with cosmopolitan social and cultural sensibilities — people can and quite frequently do think very differently. So I found myself surprised just how widespread hostility to AI is.